Project Draft

As part of Day 23’s pre-class assignment (which is due April 6, by 5pm), you will make a short slide deck to present the current state of your project to your colleagues. Note this is not exactly the same as your slides for your project presentation, but as seen below, some of these will make sense to eventually overlap. This means you should spend time working on your semester project Jupyter notebook and generate a project draft that you can talk through with your group.

The submitted work for this pre-class assignment itself is minimal. However, you should spend at enough time working on your semester project to have a meaningful first draft.

Prior to class, you should submit your 1-3 slides for your project draft presentation to the appropriate “Pre-class assignments” submission folder. Submission instructions can be found at the end of the notebook.

Instructions for Slides

For the pre-class assignment, you need to create 1-3 slides to present the current state of your project to your group members. Those slides should contain the following:

• Your research question

• A summary of what you have done so far (data cleaning, analysis, model coded, etc.)

• At least one challenge you have faced

• A plan for completing your project by the deadline, including critical tasks you need to complete or obstacles you need to overcome.

Making your slides

You can make the slides in whatever program you prefer (e.g. Google Slides, Powerpoint, or Keynote), but you need to output your slides in PDF format, name it LastName_FirstName.pdf, and upload it to the D2L dropbox for the Day 23 pre-class assignment.

Also, be prepared to present these slides to your classmates so that you can discuss any concerns you might have about your idea and get their feedback.